David Haslam (GP)

This article is about the obesity specialist. For other people with the same name, see David Haslam (disambiguation).

David William Haslam (11 May 1962 - 23 August 2021)[1] was a general practitioner and physician specialising in obesity medicine at the Centre for Obesity Research at Luton & Dunstable Hospital. He graduated from St. Thomas' Hospital Medical School in 1985.

Haslam was the Chair of the National Obesity Forum. He was also a member of the group Experts in Severe and Complex Obesity. In 2010 he warned that the wrong people were getting bariatric surgery and said some of those who are most obese should just be offered "palliative care" for their obesity.[2]

In December 2013 he was one of a number of doctors who signed a letter to Jeremy Hunt urging that the battle against dementia should focus on the benefits of a Mediterranean diet rather than drugs of dubious efficacy.[3]

Select bibliography

• Fat, Gluttony and Sloth: Obesity in Literature, Art and Medicine, by David Haslam and Fiona Haslam (2009). Liverpool University Press. ISBN 1846310946.[4]

• The Obesity Epidemic and Its Management: A Textbook for Primary Healthcare Professionals on the Understanding, Management and Treatment of Obesity, by Terry Maguire and David Haslam (2010). Pharmaceutical Press. ISBN 0853697868.

• Bariatric Surgery in Clinical Practice [editor and contributor] (2022). Springer Publishing. ISBN 9783030833992.[5]

References

1. "David Haslam". WHTimes. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
2. "'Palliative care not surgery' for the most obese". BBC News. 13 August 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
3. "Healthy diet may prevent dementia, say doctors". TheGuardian.com. 8 December 2013.
4. "Fat, Gluttony and Sloth". Liverpool University Press. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
5. David Haslam; Aseem Malhotra; Matthew S. Capehorn, eds. (2022). Bariatric Surgery in Clinical Practice. In Clinical Practice. Springer Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-83399-2. ISBN 978-3-030-83398-5. S2CID 251746005. Retrieved 5 November 2022..

External links

• Profile at Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Postgraduate Medical School